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Variety of Arabica coffee · Coffea arabica
Robust, high-yielding Brazilian natural cross of Typica and Bourbon – a backbone of coffee farming.
🇧🇷 Brazil 1943
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Sumatra (Typica) x Red Bourbon
- Breeder
- Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
Description
Fruit
Red cherries, good cup with balanced body. Less refined than pure Bourbon but reliable.
Growth
Tall, vigorous and disease-tolerant growth; harder to harvest than dwarf cultivars.
Yield
Very high yield and strong adaptability; parent of Catuaí.
Notes
Rust-susceptible but vigorous. Historically pivotal for Brazil's production surge.
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